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Re: st: display graphs on log scale


From   Scott Merryman <[email protected]>
To   [email protected]
Subject   Re: st: display graphs on log scale
Date   Wed, 15 Aug 2012 14:03:45 -0500

See -help axis_scale_options-

Scott


On Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 1:56 PM, Pradipto Banerjee
<[email protected]> wrote:
> I have a series that is cumulative returns (of a trading strategy) and I am displaying a line graphs versus date as follows:
>
> . line cumreturns date
>
> Since the cumulative returns grows exponentially, is there any way to change the graph such that scale on Y-axis is logarithmic?
>
> I don't want to change the values to be logarithmic, i.e. I don't want to use: line `= ln(cumreturns)' date. (I'm looking for the equivalent of Matlab function -semilogy-)
>
> Thanks
>
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